So it’s Five minute Friday again and Miss Kate has posted this week’s word. Savour is one of those words that evokes a variety of memories. Savouring the beauty of a the world when one goes camping, savouring smells arising from a cookfire or stove in the house, savouring the smells of Christmas, Thanksgiving or Easter. One can savour lessons learned and time with friends. Currently we are in a change of seasons where out on a walk I can savour the moment as I gaze up spring flowers.
I can also savour moments in the lives of others, victories with skills learned, total wins, and life skills solidified. Isn’t it good to relish the successes gained in the lives of family and friends?
Savour the Moment
Sunday afternoon
A quiet time to rest
Traditionally a day
When Mom is less stressed.
No meals to make
Unless desire to make
Perhaps today is
Time for some cake?
Leftovers await.
Inspiration may arise.
But hold… there’s a teen
Life skills must apprise.
Question arises
What does the lad think?
If on Sundays it’s his turn
For food and drink?
Sure mom he says
I can handle that
If you help abit
Lest the food all be flat!
Savour the moment
Flavours descend
A lad’s willing help
Oh… I might have to amend!
MOM! Help the cry!
I ask what’s betwist
We have no ingredient
Is the meal now a miss?
Teaching I help
The lad learn substitution
Learning a recipe’s a guide
Not always the full solution.
Savour the moment
When confidence is found
No longer hotdogs and soup
Now casseroles abound.
Savouring the moment
When skills learned in life
Mean the lad’s future
Is filled with less strife.
Able to cook,
And learn to adapt.
Part of life-learning
It all seems so apt.
Scriptural Insight
Proverbs 22:6
6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Genesis 9:2-3
“The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.”
Matthew 6:11
“Give us this day our daily bread.”
1 Chronicles 9:31
“Mattithiah, a Levite and the oldest son of Shallum the Korahite, was entrusted with baking the bread used in the offerings.”
I love cooking with my eleven year old daughter. You are so many life lessons that can be learned while cooking as a family. I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
So many lessons indeed Jolene!
I love how you developed the poem to share how your son helps in the kitchen!
Thank you Kristen.
Much to savour – good food, lessons learned, a helper, time together . . . So many blessings. Loved your poem!
I’m your neighbor at FMF#25 this week!
Thank you Kym
How lovely! Yes, substitution and making do are very much a part of cooking – we’ve all learnt that much more through the lockdowns, when shopping was restricted.
It’s good to stretch our skills isn’t it?
Life skills abound in cooking, don’t they? Good use of the poem form for this one. It was fun.
oh good, I was hoping for fun! 🙂
Love this.
thank you